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"The Tour de Lance continues! Actor Ben Foster is set to star as Lance Armstrong in an upcoming biopic.\r\nFoster, who&amp;apos;s played Angel in X-Men: The Last Stand, will set his wings aside to portray the disgraced cyclist in the Stephen Frears-directed biopic, reports Deadline. The film will be based on the book, &amp;quot;Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong,&amp;quot; by Irish journalist David Walsh.\r\n\r\nThe biopic will encompass the timeline from Armstrong&amp;apos;s diagnosis of testicular cancer in the &amp;apos;90s to his meteoric rise as a superstar athlete, and ultimately to his downfall following a massive doping scandal that peaked in 2012. Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year following an in-depth investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, with Walsh playing a hefty role in the athlete&amp;apos;s demise.\r\nIn an intense, no-holds-barred, sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey in January, Armstrong fessed up and expressed remorse over his actions. &amp;quot;The ultimate crime is the betrayal of those people that supported me and believed in me,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;They got lied to.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBridesmaids and Girls cast member Chris O&amp;apos;Dowd will portray sports journalist Walsh, while Breaking Bad&amp;apos;s Jesse Plemons and French actor Guillaume Canet will have supporting roles in the film. Previous works by Frears&amp;apos; include The Queen and High Fidelity.\r\nFoster, currently dating Robin Wright, has starred in films like The Messenger and 3:10 to Yuma, and had a memorable role in Six Feet Under.\r\nFilming for the biopic is slated to begin Oct. 18. It joins two other Armstrong films currently in the works-- one based on the book, &amp;quot;Cycle of Lies&amp;quot; by Juliet Macur, and Red Blooded American starring Bradley Cooper.\r\n\r\nTell Us: Is Ben Foster the right choice to play Armstrong?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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